The Yorkshire House.

The Yorkshire house was first recorded as a public house in 1828 although its history dates further back than this, as it was the home of a social club in the early part of the 18th Century. When far from home people from an area liked to meet and it is thought that in the past, exiles from Yorkshire used to seek each others company at this house, perhaps at the club. The inn is situated in an old timber-framed building that was encased in brick sometime in the 18th Century. Parts of the cellar are much older and have dressed stonewalls from the 13th Century, which are similar to work in St. Mary's and are possibly part of the outbuildings of the church.

In 1851 it was the terminus for the Withington Carrier, Thomas Leary who travelled between the town and village on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

The inn was for many years in private ownership and was one of the last public houses in Shrewsbury to sell its own home-brewed ale, which it did until the 1930s. In 1900 the owner and landlord was John Lowe and the house consisted of ten rooms, six private and four public, with overnight accommodation for ten people in three rooms.

The most famous landlord of the Yorkshire House was Gerald Cuff, who arrived in July 1959 with his dog Janey. He was fifty-four at the time and had been an actor for over twenty-seven years before becoming a landlord in Wolverhampton. His best known role was as the 'Bos'un' in ITV' s popular 'Popeye Show,' which had started eighteen months before he came to Shrewsbury.' Every Monday he would leave the inn to travel over to the television studios in Birmingham to present another live show.